A local-first capture dock · Windows 10 & 11
Capture a region, window, full screen, or scrolling page. Then extract its text, mark it up, pin it, preview it, dictate, or listen — without sending your captures away.
Core capture tools run on your PC. Optional cloud actions stay off until you choose them.
14-day trial · no account · no card · $49 during beta
One motion · three parts
Your screen is full of things you can see but cannot quite hold. Octadock turns those pixels into something ready for your next move.
How it works
One capture. Three clear stages. No detour through a pile of heavyweight apps.
Snip a region, window, full screen, or scrolling page. It lands on your shelf and clipboard, ready for the next move.
Screen recording captures video only today; audio capture is not available yet.
Pull text from an image, mark up what matters, dictate into any app, or hear a selection read aloud — without breaking your flow.
Dictation downloads its speech model once, with your approval, then runs on your PC.
Float a reference above your work, preview a file, or find something you copied earlier. Your shelf, pins, history, and clipboard remain on your PC.
All eight · at a glance
The three chapters show the flow. Here is every instrument inside it, in one clear index.
Region, window, full screen, or a scrolling page, straight to the shelf and your clipboard.
Pull selectable text out of any pixels with the local Windows engine. No network call, ever.
Speak into any app. Local Parakeet runs on your CPU at 20–30× realtime, no key needed.
Hear a selection, file, clipboard, or the OCR of a region read back with on-device Windows voices.
Arrows, boxes, counters, text, highlighter, and blur to redact before anyone else sees it.
Float any capture above every window. Move it, resize it, set opacity, and lock it in place.
CSV, code, JSON, Markdown, logs, and images: a glance without opening a heavier app.
A searchable local history of what you copied, plus local text transforms.
Also aboard: screen recording — video only today — and a local Context Stack. Both are described plainly in the records.
Local-first, precisely
Screenshots, video recordings, OCR text, history, and clipboard entries are stored locally. Octadock does not upload them. Every exception is named below.
Capture, annotation, OCR, Windows read-aloud, file preview, pins, clipboard history, and local text tools make no network calls.
A first speech-model download, license activation, your installed AI CLI, optional OpenAI dictation, and optional ElevenLabs voices.
The network ledger
If a row is not here, Octadock does not make that call.
| When | Where it goes | What is sent | Control |
|---|---|---|---|
| First time you dictate | Hugging Face (model host) | A model-file request. No text, no audio. | one-time |
| Activating or re-checking a license | Octadock license service | License key, a device hash, purchase email. | required to buy |
| You run "explain" / "summarize" | Your installed Codex or Claude CLI → your AI provider | The text you asked to explain. | opt-in |
| You enable cloud dictation | OpenAI (speech-to-text) | Your recorded audio, with your key. | opt-in |
| You enable cloud voices | ElevenLabs (text-to-speech) | The text to be spoken, with your key. | opt-in |
Video only today. Screen recording does not capture audio, so we do not sell it as if it does.
Context is honest. Local export works now; its AI, MCP, and redaction layer is still in development and will ship to Local licenses at no extra cost.
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For power users
Use the Octadock CLI, octadock:// URLs, global hotkeys, and file associations from scripts, AutoHotkey, or agent tooling. Commands are validated locally and passed to the tray app through a per-user local pipe; nothing listens on the network.
# grab a region straight to the clipboard
> octadock capture-area --action copy
# OCR a fixed region as lines
> octadock ocr --area 100,120,800,600 --mode lines
# speak whatever you copied
> octadock read --clipboardOne local license
$49during beta
Buy once for three devices, 12 months of updates, and version 1.0 when it ships. Your installed version keeps working after updates end.
Pro is waitlist-only and is not for sale.
Windows 10 & 11
Fourteen days free. No account, no card. A single $49 during beta if it earns a place in your workflow.
Release packaging in progress. The signed installer, download host, and published SHA-256 will go live together.